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Three years ago, Jordan B Peterson caused a sensation with his strict self-help book “12 Rules of Life.” There he incorporated daily advice to make the bed in a great mythological battle between order and chaos.
At the same time, his own life falls apart. Stress and illness in the family make her abuse sedative benzodiazepines and, following her daughter’s advice, she begins a “lion diet” consisting of meat, salt, and water. He is becoming increasingly fragile and doctors believe he suffers from schizophrenia, but he rejects the diagnosis and goes to Russia to be put into a voluntary coma. He loses the ability to speak, forgets to button his shirt, and is a lobster pole of death.
As soon as you can bend your fingers again, you finish writing your new rule book. It would be easy to dismiss the advice after all the incomparably lousy decisions, but I’m excited by what you’ve learned in the dark. Already in the title “Beyond order” promises to enhance femininity, which in the first book was seen as poison. Should the moralist who urged the world to “sweep clean in front of its own door before criticizing others” finally pick up the brush?
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Sometimes it seems so. He writes that both conservatives are needed, who safeguard good hierarchies in which the right ones govern, and radicals who correct injustices. In his research in psychology, he has shown how commitment is related to personality, where the right is orderly and the left creative, and in moments of sympathy he gives both a place in the whole. But sadly, it is like a tennis referee constantly jumping and smashing balls to the side, as when fighting feminism and Islam. Such activism undermines his beloved balance, to which I will return.
Some advice is welcoming. Thus, you should have a really beautiful room at home, as well as cultivating everyday romance. After that, the mood often escalates quickly, such as when it presents three ways to resolve disagreements: negotiation, tyranny, or slavery. It has become a cliché that lost youth need their severity, but to view each cleaner as a part-time battle in the eternal duel between lord and slave?
However, the apocalyptic tone does serve a purpose. As he writes in “Maps of Meaning” (1999), a much more exciting book, where human history is told based on our myths, we feel lost without a role in a larger story. Therefore, look for meaningful accounts in everything from Buddhism to natural religions that have been forgotten in rational society. At all times he sees a tension between structure and chaos, and when the balance is upset, a hero must be reborn and create a new order. This applies to everyone from Jesus and Harry Potter to you, yes, in front of the computer. Stretch out, set a goal, and give it your all!
Sure, there are more constructive languages for talking about your problems, but Peterson wins the walk.
Many young men attracted by this vision. Men feel lonelier, commit suicide more often, do worse in school, and not all see the future as a smorgasbord of “privilege.” Sure, there are more constructive languages for talking about your problems, but Peterson wins at the walkover. Many established feminists sound like him, go for it! stop complaining! It is not a shame for you! – and then you prefer to listen to the authority that barks with love.
There is only one problem with his strict commandments. They seem to apply primarily to others.
He describes his reckless hospital visit as external evidence rather than his own work, claims that the tax authorities are pursuing him out of sheer rudeness, and despite thirty years as a psychologist, he pretends to believe that good it’s harmless. There are always “special circumstances” and they are never your fault. What happened to taking responsibility and telling the truth?
Of course, the doctrine can give something despite its weaknesses, but it is equally ambiguous. He advises us to abandon ideology, while the folders are filled with contempt for political correctness. Not even patients escape their annoying culture war.
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When it treats A young climate activist says that it is “wrong to overestimate your knowledge of such things – or perhaps even think about them – when you are in your 20s and you lack positive elements in your life and have great difficulty even getting out of bed in the morning.” Why couldn’t a common struggle for the planet make sense to her in a nihilistic age? But she certainly cannot even think for herself, but must have been deluded with such “generic, impersonal, and cynical ideas.” A patient who is disturbed by the political correctness of his company, on the other hand, is right to fight evil so that it does not spread.
We were promised a conservative balance, but we were given a double standard. How did he see himself with the “positives” when he wrote the advice himself?
Hypocrisy is found at all levels. It rejects the pursuit of equality as a “murderous ideology” with reference to Stalinism, a rather hysterical analysis, since the postwar egalitarian welfare states are said to be the most successful societies in history. He is even quieter about his own inspiration among anti-democratic and fascists like Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jung and Mircea Eliade, or about his points of contact with the violent wave of the right that is now sweeping the world.
Peterson’s Swedish fan group on Facebook is almost about how political correctness destroys society.
Is it possible to save one? Healthy austerity of this angry mix? Maybe, but I wonder if duality isn’t exactly what draws your readers. Of course, you’re right that parts of today’s activism are fueled by resentment – pursuing a victim role and blaming others, rather than building a new future upright. But this is especially true in your own field. Peterson’s Swedish fan group on Facebook is almost about how political correctness destroys society and their lives, almost nothing about working on oneself.
Complaining about other people’s messy rooms is still easier than cleaning your own.
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